Investigators from the St James Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) are probing the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the body of a woman with its head bashed in along a beach in Montego Bay in the parish on Sunday morning.

The deceased has been identified as Kerry-Ann Campbell of Johns Hall in St James.

Reports are that about 6:30 a.m. the police were summoned after the body was found on the ‘Fisherman's Beach’ along Howard Cooke Boulevard in the resort city.

Upon their arrival, the police found the body with the head bashed in.

The scene was processed and the body removed to the morgue, pending a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death